The goal of today’s tip of the day is very simple! All we want to accomplish is to rip a Blu-ray disc to your hard drive for playback with the program of your choice. One thing to note, media center programs such as VMC or SageTV will natively playback Blu-ray discs. A bit of a pain in the butt but […]
Read moreElectronic House When you bought your home theater you thought about screen resolution, refresh rates and HDMI ports. You discussed audio options with the A/V guy, networking options with your neighbor and furniture with your wife. What you likely didn’t plan for were ways to protect your new equipment from your children and your children from the equipment. Here are […]
Read moreSanta Clara, CA – June 16, 2008: Auzentech, Inc. (www.auzentech.com) reveals today its non-downsampling, HDMI 1.3-native, PCI express audio combo card: Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1. The Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1 accepts video from either an internal or external connection, mixes it with digital audio, and outputs the combined video and lossless multichannel audio via a single HDMI™ 1.3 port. Moreover, […]
Read moreIf you haven’t caught our upcoming site preview, take a gander at this thread . I release a few screen shots that should get you guys salivating :). Reply #2 and 16 have the screenshots. On the advertising front, we have a couple of new advertisers with us. The banner position is taken by Cyberestore.com , they have a nice […]
Read moreIt is amazing what can happen over the weekend. Get some yard work done, and of course have lots of time to evaluate and re-evaluate what direction I want to take for this whole digital home aspect. I am somewhat tied to the Microsoft platform because of my investment into CableCards. I would like to say QAM and OTA could […]
Read moreIn Lord Of The Rings epic fashion, I started on my journey to rip and catalog my DVD/Blu-ray library. The first step in this process is to decide which format you want your DVDs to be ripped in. There are several methods to do this and here are a few of the more common methods. 1. Rip an exact ISO […]
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Did you notice the spiffy new banner right below the tabbed module showing the latest posts? I hope so :). HP and Microsoft has teamed up to have 4 webinars with various industry experts to talk about their upcoming MediaSmart Connect device that will be released this summer. Lets talk about the industry experts for a second. The usual will […]
Read moreThe news is a little slow these days and will remain a little on the slow side for a couple of more weeks. Why you ask? We are working on some stuff interally that we hope to share pretty soon :). As well, you may have noticed in my build logs that I am going through another major upgrade that […]
Read moreFresh from the Windows Blog is reports that the WHS Power Pack 1 Beta is here. If you like to test beta software, head on over to Microsoft Connect and get testing :). The important thing to note is that the data corruption bug is now fixed! Here are a few improvements you can expect in this Power Pack. Support […]
Read moreElectronic House Blu-ray supporters let out a collective sigh of relief following the format war victory several months ago, but manufacturers have yet to reap the benefits. Turns out consumers are reluctant to give up their now-pedestrian DVD players. In a recent poll, only nine percent plan to buy a Blu-ray player within the next year. All things considered, you […]
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